1. What are the most interesting discoveries you made watching this video?
I thought it was sort of neat that all of the ancient Egyptian depictions of a human were set on a grid and made perfectly measured. I didn't know this and the back story of how this discovery was made was kind of interesting as well.
2. What do you think about Vilayanur S. Ramachandran theory with the chicks?
I feel like is sort of odd that the chicks went even more crazy with three red lines instead of one. It does sort of make sense when tied in with human nature though. Our brains are instinctively wired in some ways and this does makes sense when being compared to the voluptuous figure in the beginning of the film. Perhaps we do have a love for the over exaggerated.
3. Do you see any connection between the art/subjects in this video (Venus of Willendorf, the Herring gull chicks, Egyptian images of the human body, Kritian Boy) and the way the human body is portrayed today?
I think something that has not changed much in thousands of years is our desire to find the unattainable. Just like with the chicks and their fixation on the three lines instead of one, we are obsessed with "better" and "perfection". The Egyptians had an idea of the perfect form and just about every other civilization had an idea of the perfect form. We are no different, we portray bodies in a certain way and usually the image is unattainable.
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